Whose youth romance story begins with a witch's trial?!

The great witch in front of me smiled as she awkwardly rubbed against the corner of the table while blinking, trying to appear nonchalant.

"Human experience... isn't actually that interesting... academic pressure, family pressure, eating a little too much makes your waist so big you can easily pinch it... and, moreover, those sweet and unforgettable love stories in movies and TV shows don't seem to be everywhere."

The Great Witch twirled her index finger in circles like a child while whispering to herself.

"It seems like you've taken good care of Xiaoxue, so...we'd like to come and experience it for ourselves too—"

"Absolutely not!!!"

"Whoa!? Little, Little Snow...!?"

The sudden hissing sound from behind startled the Great Witch. I turned around in the direction of the sound and saw the girl, as white as snowflakes, carrying today's hot pot ingredients, along with the other former aspiring witches beside her.

"Although I don't know what happened, but... robbing Chang Rong is absolutely forbidden! This girl is an evil witch, and since she's a witch..."

Everyone: "Then a trial is necessary!"

"Eh?!"

The Great Witch's eyes widened, while Xiaoxue and the aspiring witches rubbed their hands together, determined to give the uninvited guests of Witch Island the harshest judgment.

Oh dear, I have to go to school tomorrow...

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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At first, I didn't quite understand the true meaning of what the previous teacher said to me when he was transferred to a new position.

"This class is strange... no, to be honest, that boy is definitely stranger... Although he is indeed handsome, he shouldn't be... Sorry for saying too much. Anyway, I'll leave the rest to you, Ms. Yukizome. The other children aren't bad; in fact, they're quite well-behaved."

Generally speaking, no teacher would use the word "strange" to describe a student in their class, right? However, I'm not particularly worried about this. After all, I used to be a homeroom teacher at the top-tier Hope's Peak Academy. No matter what kind of class or problem student there is, I, Xue Ranqiansha—former Ultimate Babysitter and current Ordinary Teacher—can definitely handle it with ease!

With that in mind, I arrived at Class 1-A, and after that—I finally understood what the previous teacher meant by "strange".

First of all, the students in this class are so 'uneven'! The differences between many students are so great that I even wondered if I had returned to Hope Peak Academy.

It's truly baffling that the academic prodigy, Hiro Nikaido, who scored full marks in all subjects before even enrolling and whose family is rumored to have ties to the local underworld, would be in the same class as a student named Emma Sakuraba, who almost failed a year.

If it were just a difference in academic performance, that would be one thing, but there are also many strange students in this class.

Natsume An'an, a rising author who became a sensation after publishing the hugely popular science fiction, suspense, horror, and romance novel "The Hidden Tales of Witch Island: My 100 Days of Love with the Monster in My Heart (Part 1)", is currently receiving death threats from people because she can't finish writing the second volume. As a result, her parents come to the school every few days and ask me to pay more attention to protecting that child.

Damn it... I was also following that novel, and I really wanted to urge them to update! The prince-like idol girl, Hasumi Ryoua, changed her stage style and stopped being so assertive, which actually caused her popularity to skyrocket. She even turned down an invitation from a popular masked girl band. It's said that she used to frequently take leave to visit the hospital, but recently it seems she no longer needs to visit patients. She's often seen on the playground surrounded by boys and girls handing her love letters.

Because more and more children are trying to elbow the concrete ground in tears after being rejected by her, I feel it's necessary to make her wear the mask of the clam too...

The first time she revealed her true form, because her true form was too cute, not many people paid attention to the change in her painting style. The super popular street artist [Balloon] Noah Kinosaki - has disastrously poor grades in all subjects, and even with Heero's help to tutor her, she is still far behind.

The child's drawings are indeed very expressive, but for some reason, he seems to be more interested in body painting and pharmacology...

Saeki Miria, a rising star in the legal profession, is active in court at an improbably young age, earning praise even from the presiding judge. Her motto is, "If you're going to believe the defendant, believe he's innocent!"—though she claims this, she seems quite troubled by it. The girl originally seemed to just want to be a glamorous young woman enjoying her youth, but she's now been transformed into a 'reliable and mature lawyer with a motherly aura.'

It is said that she also played a part in the case of the greatest crime in history that led to despair and imprisonment. She is not to be underestimated. It's not just the child's ability, but also the child's magnanimity... Are children these days so well-developed?

Recently, Shirley Tachibana has become somewhat famous online for her "frail wheelchair detective girl at the end of the century" persona, but the videos she posts are mostly about physically assaulting criminal suspects. Currently, deducing the true identity of the "most important Watson" mentioned by this detective girl has become the most talked-about activity among her fans.

Considering that revealing the truth would likely trigger another wave of elbowing incidents, I'd better pretend I know nothing for now...

These people should have been scattered across different colleges, and shouldn't even have followed a uniform schedule for going to and from school. But for some unknown reason, they ended up in the same class.

Furthermore, I also noticed that there are far more students with special talents in this class than just these.

For some reason, Hannah Tono, a commoner girl, speaks with the same high-class quirk as Miss OB who doesn't want to reveal her name. Although she usually behaves very steadily, at most she just likes to fill in for cleaning duties, but I noticed that the dolls she sews in her spare time have gradually become popular in some small circles. That girl has the qualifications of an 'Ultimate Housekeeper/Doll Master'!

When I first heard that the child's family situation was quite difficult, I considered offering to help them financially. However, it seems that the child is now able to stand on their own and is quite content with their current life.

The girl, Arisa Fujito, who always wears a hood and has a head of white hair that makes her look somewhat fierce, is actually the same person who serves as both the animal husbandry committee member and the flower and plant committee member. That child has the blood of a Yamato Nadeshiko, which is extremely rare in this era! If anyone can win her favor, I guarantee that the lucky person must have saved the world in their past life.

For some reason, there's the shy, black-haired, twin-tailed girl, Kurobe Nanoha, who repeated a year—is this kid an idiot...? I heard that during her self-introduction at school, she was so shy that her brain overloaded, and she tried to find her 'older sister' for help. But I never expected that on the day I took over and gave my introduction, she would also choose to run away through the broken window because of her shyness.

Fortunately, her older sister is currently in the third grade and in a different class. If the sisters were together, even I would probably have a hard time handling them...

I used to be a VTuber for a while, but now my focus is completely on my studies and home economics. The cat girl, Sawatari Coco, is nothing special. She looks like an adorable little girl who can be petted, hugged, and kissed. However, she keeps calling "Onii-chan" to [that boy]... which makes me have to take her seriously.

The terrifying girl, Mag Hosho, skilled in deception and tarot readings, used her voice-changing ability to find out everything about me—my marital status, sexual orientation, and type of person I liked—on my very first day at work. That girl gave me some not-so-pleasant hallucinations, and these highly intelligent individuals who enjoy deceiving others always seem to be the driving force behind various incidents. But what I didn't expect was that after Mag learned my interest in "that boy" was merely 'curiosity,' she instantly lost all interest in me. This actually made me slightly uneasy…

Among all the students in the class, the most special ones should be Ice Meruru and Sato Yuki.

The two of them always acted together, seeming more like childhood sweethearts than Emma and Heero, yet their relationship was utterly baffling to me. Sometimes they looked like mother and daughter, sometimes like mistress and servant, sometimes like sisters, sometimes like best friends, and sometimes like rivals who wanted nothing more than to kick each other away.

In her spare time, Meruru likes to go to the infirmary to provide free treatment and care for other students. Presumably, her dream in the future is to become a doctor who saves lives.

But Sato Yuki is different. That girl is always a step behind in everything, whether it's studying or doing anything else. Although she's earnest and hardworking, she's still clumsy, except when it comes to somersaults, where she's incredibly skilled. I even talked to her about her future academic plans, and she just pointed one finger to the sky and one to the ground, with a cryptic smile, and said to me, 'Just leave everything to magic…' This girl has a serious problem!

What could possibly bind these two children, who seem to have nothing in common and whose hearts are filled with such a stark contrast, together?

Hmm... a young girl's heart is always filled with poetry. It seems I, too, have already passed those innocent and passionate years~

All of this has been just a prelude.

What I find truly unbelievable is that all those charming and adorable girls, with completely different personalities, appearances, hobbies, and abilities, somehow all simultaneously fall in love with [that boy]: Chang Rong.

Chang Rong is an ordinary first-year high school student, less than 1.8 meters tall, neither short nor tall. He has short white hair with sideburns hanging down on both sides, which at first glance looks a bit like the ears of some kind of animal. Sometimes he is unreliable and sometimes he seems a bit annoying, but overall he is a reliable and handsome boy.

To say that a student like Chang Rong can't find a girlfriend is really an overstatement; he should be able to date girls very easily.

But the fact that all those girls, from all walks of life, would flock to him and relentlessly pursue him without any mercy... that's something I simply can't understand.

In fact, the girls pursuing that boy were far more than just the ones I just mentioned.

She looked somewhat like Emma, ​​with the same pink hair, but she appeared to be a more timid girl—it wasn't until I caught her red-handed that I learned her name was 'Nana' and that she was a student from the school next door.

Always wearing a newsboy cap and with a camera slung around her neck, Rong Fut, a member of the "Let's Make a Big News Agency," would frequently come to my class looking for Chang Rong. In her words, "As long as we follow Rong, we'll eventually get some super exciting news!" I wonder what kind of news she was planning—a witch invasion of Earth?

As mentioned before, Nanoha Kaori's older sister, unsurprisingly, would come over to harass Chang Rong every now and then.

Even the young lady from the Gaoyuan family would specially ride a stretched Maybach to the school gate to wait for Chang Rong! This is just too crazy! Moreover, according to some eyewitness testimonies, there was a blonde girl sitting inside that stretched Maybach, and that girl actually called Chang Rong 'Dad'—this, this is really... incomprehensible to me.

The previous teacher was right; that boy was indeed too strange. Although he was very talented, he should not have reached such a terrifying level of ambition.

This question lingered in my mind until one day during a break between classes, I stopped Chang Rong and asked him a question in a half-joking tone.

"Hey, Chang Rong. Are you some kind of male protagonist with a system? I feel like Chang Rong is too popular. Even I, the teacher, am quite interested in you?"

Faced with my question, the white-haired boy was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and replied:

"That's not true, teacher. After all—"

Whose youth romance story begins with a witch's trial?!

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